Foot-arch support.



I'. S. SARGENT.

FOOT ARCH SUPPORT.

APPLIQATION FILED AUGJ20. 1914.

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FREDERICK SARGENT, 0F PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, .ASSIGNOR 0E ONE-HALF T0 HORACE C. ORPHIN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

FOUT-ARCH SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Jan. 26, 1915.

Application led August 20, 1914. Serial N o. 857,757.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK S. SAR- GENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Foot-Arch Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in foot arch supports, and the primary object of the invention is to provide an article of the character specified which possesses the characteristics of being perfectly iiexible so as to respond to any of the various foot movements while at the same time supporting the foot arch in proper position. Further, the invention aims to provide an arch supporter which is extremely simple in character and which therefore can be economically produced, and which in further addition has novel means incorporated therein for holding the article in proper position on vand with relation to the foot.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the support in position as it appears on the foot of the user. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the support prior to application to the foot, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 8.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention a base l of leather is employed, the base being of ovaloid contour. A layer of felt 2 having tapered peripheral edges is placed on the base 1 and in turn receives a ring-like top covering member 3 which is formed of leather, the felt layer and the covering member being of ovaloid contour so as to have their edges register with the edges of the base. The three parts are united by inner and outer rows of stitching 4.

For the purpose of properly securing the support to the foot, I coat the exposed outer face of the felt layer 2 with adhesive 5, which latter is bounded by the inner circumference of the top leather covering 3 and extends above or beyond the outer face of the latter so as to contact with the foot of the wearer, and by reason of the heat rediating from the foot be held securely in position in relation to the foot and to the shoe.

The combined layers of leather with the interposed layer of felt provide a flexible support which readily responds to the foot movements and which still maintain the foot in proper position at the arch thereof, and the presence of the adhesive, the spreading of which is prevented by the inner wall which the inner circumference of the top layer 3 provides, enables the structure to be eifectively secured to the foot of the wearer.

By reference to Figs. l and 2 of the drawings, it will be seen that the support is readily flexed so as to conform to the arch of the foot to engage same in the most practical way to assure the support performing its function in an eiective and serviceable manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. In an arch support, a leather base of ovaloid form, a layer of felt having tapered bounding edges disposed on top of the base, a ring-like top layer of leather disposed on the top face of the felt layer, stitching uniting the three aforesaid layers, and :1n adhesive secured on the exposed face of the felt layer and engaged at its outer circumference by the inner circumference of the ring-like top leather layer and arranged to be engaged with the arch of the foot of the wearer whereby to secure the support 1n position.

2. In an arch support, a leather base of ovaloid form, a felt layer on the base, a ring-like top layer on the felt layer, means to unite all of the aforesaid layers, and an adhesive secured to the felt layer in the space which the ring-like top layer provides and arranged to be engaged with the arch of the foot of the wearer whereby to secure the support in position.

3. In an arch support, a base, a felt layer on the base, a top on the felt layer having an opening which extends to the felt, and an adhesive in the opening seating on the felt to be engaged with the arch of the foot of the wearer wlfiereb;7 to secure the support In testimony whereof I have signed my in position. name to this specification in the presence of 4. In an arch support, a base structure two subscribing witnesses. having an opening in its top which opening FREDERICK S. SARGENT. 5 is Closed at its bottom and an adhesive dis- Vitnesses:

posed in the opening to engage the foot of ADA E. HAGERTY, the wearer to secure the support in position. J. A. MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

